Lark Rise Farm Barton

Although the insects were far fewer than last year, we did find a good variety of species some like the Beetles on the Carrot seed heads were numerous. Here a few 'portraits' of the more attractive species (depending of course on your appreciation of the insect world!!). The minute Tephrid flies (4mm) with their irridescent eyes were a particular challenge as they didn't stay still for long

Macro at Lark Rise Farm, Barton

Windy and mostly overcast were not the best conditions for a CCC outing for macro to Lark Rise Farm, Cambridgeshire but we still found a good variety of wildlife including beetles, flies, bugs and spiders. Now to ID them all and enter on i-record for the site!!

Lark Rise Farm CRT Barton

Lark Rise farm managed by the Countryside Restoration Trust demonstrates what an enormous range of wildlife will flourish on a properly managed farm. Here are just a few of the dozens of species recorded during a couple of hours walk at the site (Large and Essex skippers, Gatekeeper, Silver Y moth, many amazing species of flies and abundant spiders)

Wasp Spiders - Focus Stacking Exercise

I must admit to being somewhat addicted to finding these impressive spiders and then trying to photograph them accurately. So when after 2 hours in the field rain stopped play, I found I had 25 or so photostacks (20 or 30 images per stack) occupying a lot of disk space. Of these 9 stacked OK in Zerene Stacker and here are six different views of three different individuals. It was quite breezy and the spider does tend to vibrate in the web if it senses an intruder so not surprised at low hit rate

Autumn Macro at Lark Rise Farm

Lark Rise Farm (Cambridgeshire) is definitely looking quite autumnal now with soft brown seed heads and grasses. So beautiful how the Common Darter female blended into its thistle perch, and the pattern created in the seed heads of the Sow Thistle, Carrot and Knapweed. Otherwise plenty of different flies around and a couple of Wasp Spiders now more than 5 cm across including the legs.